Pishko98

Thanks for all the replies. This week I did manage to get the Mahan and I have to say, I really enjoy it. I did notice that the T7 Mahan is much more versatile in terms of gameplay tactics. I never really found the Farragut amazing as I only tried using it as a close-range gunboat. Now that I have the T7 and working towards the Benson, I find them much more enjoyable. Also noticed that defensive AA is actually quite effective at scaring away CVs from constantly pecking me and at the same time with the longer range torpedoes I can actually stay back a little as I still have some sort of way to influence the battle, even if the torpedoes are kind of slow at 55 knots and hard to land hits with. I did realize that staying alive till the end of the battle is much more important than capping a point in the first 3 minutes of the game just so it can be decapped anyway a minute later. Thanks again! Also I am looking into premium destroyers that are both fun and good money makers. Now that I have reached T7 I've realized that I might not have enough credits for later use. Also for all the DD mains out there, what is a good hybrid destroyer line that I can grind after I finish the US DD line? I have started the German DD line (currently on the Gaede), but I find them very sluggish (probably because I got used to the US DD maneuverability). I also started grinding the EU DD line just to try the whole torpedo boat with no smoke style.

I do try to focus on hunting down enemy DD's and I am aware of the P key. My issues is that when a carrier actively tries to hunt me down I cannot do anything other than fall back and be useless. I actively try to evade planes but while I do I feel like I can't do anything to actually counter his strategy.

Hello, captains! I wouldn't say I'm a newcomer as I have played ever since beta but I never really got into the game that much, but my low number of battles makes me a complete newbie when it comes to the current meta. Here is the story, when I first started playing this game I tried a bunch of ships classes and I did like the IJN cruisers a lot. I managed to reach the Aoba but after that I kinda stopped playing as I got bored. Well recently I decided to join the game again and well, I wanted a fresh class to play. I was thinking what could be exciting and fun and of course DD's fit the whole description - fast, stealthy close range fighters that that are fragile, but can put up a good fight. Well I tried the german DD's and I got to tier 6 with the Gaede but I didn't enjoy them very much as they seem more like Light cruisers than actual DD's as they aren't as maneuverable as a typical destroyer and in terms of artillery some of them have those massive 150mm guns that certainly no other DD has from what I've seen. Well I wanted a "proper" destroyer (whatever that means) and I looked at a couple of videos from some contributors and almost all of them settled on one thing - the american DD line teaches you the most about proper destroyer tactics. Of course I started grinding, but as I reached the Farragut I hit a brick wall. Every game that I find myself in I feel shut down and I can't do any of the "proper" DD responsibilities - contesting caps, spotting and hunting down other destroyers. My main issue is mainly CV's. Every time I try to contest a cap I find myself hunted by an enemy CV player almost the entire game as my friendly CV racks up all the spotting rendering me completely useless. Of course if I try to avoid the enemy planes, I'm either way out in a place that noone needs me at, or I find myself in the blob of friendly cruisers to protect myself from enemy planes, which in both cases makes me completely useless as I'm not spotting, nor do I have the range to fight along the bigger ships. Please don't take this as a "I hate CVs" thread. I honestly never played CVs and I have no idea how hard it is, but currently I feel like everytime I encounter a CV, I don't really have a role in the game other than "find ship in open, spotted by friendlies, smoke up, shoot until smoke is gone, deal around 8-10k damage, repeat" and I feel like a CV can do all the spotting and damage better than me. I did have issues with radar too, but fortunately slowly I learned all the ships that have it and what their range is and I don't get too close, of course if they pop radar I just stay at the edge of their detection range and If I feel danger I just run away, making their radar usage completely useless. So my questions are, how do I play destroyers in the current meta, what am I doing wrong, and what do I need to do to actually help my team win? Please any help would be appreciated. I really love the idea of destroyers, but currently the way I'm playing them I just don't see how they can be useful.